This is probably the best quote I've ever heard from Mayor Scott Johnson:

"While we applaud the efforts and success to date of the Saratoga Affordable Housing Group, we must as a community, continue to work toward a change of perception to increase the willingness of neighborhoods to keep an open mind and accept affordable housing in their backyard. As the Allen Drive initiative demonstrates, affordable housing is not the ruination of your neighborhood. As state on prior occasions, the unfortunate truth is that many of our neighborhoods are still unwilling to have affordable housing nearby. Overall, that still remains the largest obstacle to development of more affordable housing throughout our City."

It was uttered during today's State of the City Address while Johnson discussed affordable housing in the city. Frankly, I couldn't agree more.

I wasn't able to work this into the story, but as has been previously noted here, Johnson was introduced by former Democratic City Chairman Lou Schneider. Schneider began his remarks by offering a personal note to the audience:

"Don't worry, I am not running for Congress," he said.

From the looks of things, just about every other Democrat is at least considering it...